mmissioners for Foreign Missions, was his class-mate and room-mate.
Dr. Anderson thus writes of him: "Our friendship was founded in mutual
knowledge and esteem, and continued during his life. The operations of
his mind were effective, equally so in nearly every branch of
learning. He was quick and accurate in the Mathematics, in the
Languages, and in Music. I know not in what one branch he was best
fitted to excel. While perfect in all his recitations, he was social,
always ready for conversation when I desired it. He had, and through
his whole life retained, my entire confidence as a man of God, nor was
I surprised at the eminent position he afterwards attained in the
church of Christ. Pleasant is his memory, and pleasant is the thought
of meeting him in a better world." While at Andover he had leisure for
reading, and that part of it which he devoted to Ecclesiastical
History had an important influence as it turned out, in deciding his
future ecclesiastical connection.

At the Commencement of Bowdoin College, in 1820, he was appointed
tutor. He taught the Junior class in Natural Philosophy, and Locke's
Essay on the Human Understanding, and the Sophomore class in Geometry
and some other parts of Mathematics, and in Logic. At the same time he
continued to pursue his theological studies, and in January, 1822, was
licensed to preach by the York Association. In September, 1821, he
delivered a Latin valedictory oration, and took his degree of A. M.
With regard to this period of his life, his fellow tutor, now the
venerable Prof. Packard, thus writes: "Mr. Hale gave at once the
impression of a kind, generous, faithful heart, a clear, acute, and
rapid intellect, and a vigorous grasp of any subject to which he gave
his thought. He was a diligent student. He loved books. Without
conceit he had sufficient self-reliance, which was always of service
to him as a teacher and governor. He always had the good-will of his
pupils, and whether with them or with his colleagues he exerted an
influence above rather than below his age and standing. He was a true
man, unselfish, of a decidedly social turn, of warm affections, of a
genial humor."

In the summer of 1822, he received proposals from R. H. Gardiner,
Esq., of Gardiner, Me., to take charge of a new institution which he
had determined to establish for the education of farmers and mechanics
in the principles of science. Mr. Hale accepted, and closed his
connection with Bowdoin Colle